Comments on: Football Manager 2013 pirated over 10 million timeshttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/
VG247.comTue, 29 Jul 2014 08:36:38 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3By: fiharhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562647
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:29:24 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562647@8
Don’t talk about things you have no idea about buddy.
Most of my college buddies in Indonesia regularly plays FM, usually all throughout the year until the next installment comes around.
The same thing with PES and FIFA and none of them ever think of going legit, even though I know of one that has now landed a very lucrative job with an oil company.

I imagine this is happening in every country in Southeast Asia that isn’t Singapore or Malaysia and quite probably in almost every third-world country as well.

]]>By: DSBhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562642
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 14:16:47 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562642I don’t see any reason to be all kneejerk and defensive about it. It sounds more than reasonable to me. He’s pretty much just saying that games have problems selling in emerging markets.

That’s what I was thinking. Piracy can be absolutely fantastic for marketing, as you can use it to make your game sound more popular than it really is. The fact of the matter is that most pirates just download something to just see what it is, then discard it quickly.

The number I honestly find the shakiest is the 18% of people keeping the game around, as that doesn’t fit the psychological profiles of how pirates work. There’s so much free stuff out there that usually they just quickly move onto the next thing, and some of them even buy the things they’ve really enjoyed.

I guess there are countries with very different cultures that I’m not taking into account here, though. Maybe the thing with China is true? Or maybe it’s just blatant racism. Who knows? I don’t.

Still, that 18% seems really shaky, and the numbers as a whole.

Furthermore, it’s worth taking into account that a nontrivial amount of pirates come from economically challenged countries. So whilst they might have scraped enough together for an old PC, they can’t exactly afford new games for it all the time. Often, indies and small devs get pirated even more than the mainstream, and this is because the mainstream requires higher-end hardware and optimises so, so poorly (I’m looking at you, Rockstar).

So those people wouldn’t be customers anyway.

I just find this brouhaha about pirates to be dubious at best, and it’s even more dubious when a game with a minority popular appeal claims to be absolutely huge in places where it most likely isn’t.

Nice marketing, not so sure about the facts.

]]>By: El_MUERkOhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562582
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:53:47 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562582I bought it, the match engine was broken, they never fixed it, I have not bought 2014, nor have I pirated it, the match engine is supposedly still broken.
]]>By: fooflyhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562534
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:10:10 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562534Yea, I can see this being popular anywhere football is popular, which is a lot of places.
]]>By: Arnvidrhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562479
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:12:36 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562479@2 Why would its popularity be limited to the UK? Football is huge in many places.
]]>By: Darkfieldhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562473
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:53:41 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562473@3 It is a great game, I usually purchase it as a birthday gift for my brother who puts hundreds of hours in it. It’s a very good sim.
]]>By: revoltinghttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562470
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 07:44:16 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562470More surprising to me is that over 10 million people wanted to play this glorified spreadsheet.
]]>By: GrimRitahttp://www.vg247.com/2013/11/14/football-manager-2013-pirated-over-10-million-times/comment-page-1/#comment-562458
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:44:49 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=426734#comment-562458Bull shit! Do they really believe this game is THAT popular outside the UK? Or has this ‘story’ appeared because FM2014 isnt doing all that well?

Yearly updates at full price has probably driven some to pirate the game, or like me, to skip one or two seasons because it just doesnt offer value for money @£35